Poultry science graduate students win awards at national meeting
February 4, 2005Contact Information:
Karen Eskew, Agricultural Communications, 479-575-3192 / keskew@uark.edu
From left, University of Arkansas poultry science graduate students Carol Ojano-Dirain and Krishna Hamal show off the awards they won at the Southern Poultry Science Society's Annual Meeting in Atlanta.
Carol Ojano-Dirain, a Ph.D. student from Pamplona in Cagayan, Philippines, received the Alltech Student Manuscript Award for her paper on mitochondrial function in broilers with low and high feed efficiency. Only one Alltech award is given out each year. Her paper was co-authored by her major professor, Dr. Walter Bottje; research assistant professors Dr. Muhammad Iqbal and Dr. Neil Pumford; undergraduate student Sydney Swonger; David Cawthon, National Toxicology Center; and Mark Cooper and Terry Wing, Cobb-Vantress, Inc.
Master's student Krishna Hamal from Nepal, won an Outstanding Research Presentation Award for his paper on maternal antibody transfer to offspring in broilers. Co-authors were his major professor Dr. Gisela Erf, and Igal Pevzner of Cobb-Vantress, Inc.
"I am extremely proud of these graduate students and the awards they have received. Our students continue to excel in their respective areas of research, and I am pleased with their continued success at the national level," said Dr. Walter Bottje, department head for poultry science.